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Einav Tayeb-Fligelman

Einav Tayeb-Fligelman is an Israeli structural biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who studies amyloids and revealed the cross-α fibril structure of the Staphylococcus aureus toxin PSMα3.

Eisuke Nishida

Eisuke Nishida (西田栄介, born 1958) is a Japanese cell biologist known for elucidating the MAP kinase signaling pathway and winner of the 2016 Japan Academy Prize.

Eizaburo Doi (土肥 英三郎)

Eizaburo Doi (土肥 英三郎) is a Japanese computational neuroscientist who builds information-theoretic models of visual coding, formerly a Research Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus from 2015 to 2022.

Elaine A. Elion

Elaine A. Elion is a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School known for showing that the yeast protein Ste5 tethers kinases in a MAP kinase cascade.

Elaine A. Ostrander

Elaine A. Ostrander is an American geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute who began the canine genome project in 1993 and studies human cancer genetics.

Elaine Dzierzak

Elaine Dzierzak is a developmental biologist known for showing that blood stem cells are born inside the embryo, in the AGM region, and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Elaine Fuchs

Elaine Fuchs (born 1950) is an American cell biologist who studies skin stem cells and tissue repair, known for work on keratin genes and hair-follicle stem cells.

Elaine Hsiao

Elaine Y. Hsiao is a microbiome researcher at UCLA who studies how gut microbes influence brain development, known for work connecting gut bacteria to autism and epilepsy.

Elaine M. Tobin

Elaine M. Tobin is an American plant molecular biologist who joined UCLA in 1975, showed that phytochrome controls gene transcription, and discovered the plant circadian clock component CCA1.

Elaine R. Mardis

Elaine R. Mardis, also known as Elaine Mardis, is an American cancer genomics researcher who co-led the first whole cancer genome sequencing and now leads the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Elaine Tuomanen

Elaine Tuomanen is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, known for research on how Streptococcus pneumoniae invades the human host.

Elazar Zelzer

Elazar Zelzer is an Israeli molecular and developmental biologist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for linking skeletal development genetics with mechanosensory neurons.

Eldon John Gardner

Eldon John Gardner (1909–1989) was an American geneticist at Utah State University and the University of Utah whose 1951 study led to Gardner's syndrome being named for him.

Eldon Newcomb

Eldon H. Newcomb (1919–2022) was an American plant cell biologist and electron microscopist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for characterizing plant microbodies and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Eleanor A. Maguire

Eleanor Anne Maguire (1970–2025) was an Irish cognitive neuroscientist and professor at University College London whose London taxi driver studies showed the adult hippocampus changes structurally with navigational experience.

Eleanor J. Gibson

Eleanor J. Gibson was an American developmental psychologist at Cornell University known for the visual cliff experiment, perceptual learning theory, and research on how children learn to read.

Eleftheria Maratos–Flier

Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, also cited as E. Maratos-Flier, is a physician and neuroendocrinologist who spent most of her career at Harvard and Joslin, known for work on MCH and FGF21.

Eleftheria Zeggini

Eleftheria Zeggini is a Greek geneticist who directs the Institute of Translational Genomics at Helmholtz Munich and led genome-wide association studies of type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis.

Eleftherios P. Mamounas

Eleftherios P. Mamounas is an American breast surgical oncologist at the AdventHealth Cancer Institute in Orlando who led the NSABP B-51 trial, reported in 2025, showing nodal irradiation can be omitted.

Elena A. Levashina

Elena A. Levashina is a Russian-born immunologist who studies mosquito immunity to malaria and heads the Vector Biology Unit at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.

Elena B. Pasquale

Elena B. Pasquale is an American-based molecular biologist known for her work on Eph receptors and ephrins at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California.

Elena Cattaneo

Elena Cattaneo is an Italian pharmacologist and neuroscientist, a professor at the University of Milan, known for research on Huntington's disease and neural stem cells.

Elena Conti

Elena Conti (born 1967) is an Italian structural biologist who studies RNA degradation and transport, directing structural cell biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry.

Elena Gracheva

Elena Gracheva is a sensory neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine known for identifying the ion channels that let snakes and vampire bats sense infrared heat.

Eli Canaani

Eli Canaani is an Israeli molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for identifying the BCR-ABL fusion gene behind chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Eli E. Sercarz

Eli E. Sercarz (1934–2009) was an American immunologist at UCLA known for work on how T cells choose protein targets, introducing dominant and cryptic epitopes and determinant spreading.

Eli Gilboa

Eli Gilboa is an immunologist at the University of Miami known for early gene therapy vectors and mRNA dendritic cell vaccines, a precursor of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

Eli Keshet

Eli Keshet (born 1945) is an Israeli molecular biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for work on VEGF and how oxygen controls blood vessel growth; he won the 2018 Israel Prize.

Eli Sprecher

Eli Sprecher (born 1963) is an Israeli dermatologist and medical geneticist who has been CEO of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center since 2024 and studies the genes behind inherited skin diseases.

Elias Lazarides

Elias Lazarides is a cell biologist at Caltech known for naming the intermediate filament protein desmin in 1976 and extending the red blood cell membrane skeleton to non-erythroid cells.